What we heard on a couple of different levels was that there is—because the policy hasn't yet been changed—a 10-year fixed debarment term and that industry was amenable to potentially broadening the scope of the triggers that could potentially cause debarment. They requested some flexibility in the fixing of the term.
We looked at international best practices. In the United States, for example, it's a three-year debarment. In Quebec, it's a five-year debarment. At the World Bank, it's a 10-year debarment.
What we were hearing from industry was that having a fixed 10-year period didn't allow us to take into account any kind of mitigating circumstances that might be present, i.e., that this behaviour had been done a number of times, the corporate structure had changed or the board had turned over, things that might lead to maybe an admission of guilt; who knows the type of crime that we're talking about.
It was really a response to some concerns raised about the lack of flexibility in the 10-year term.